The older you grow, the more you understand that love is not enough to sustain a relationship. You need patience, compassion, communication, and so much more. You need to have a willingness to work on your bad qualities. You need to fight to overcome the problems you face together. You need to give each other space, yet never make the other person doubt how you feel about them. You need to remind each other that you still feel the way you did the first time you met - that time has not made your feelings fade, but only grow stronger. You need be honest, even when it's difficult. You need to accept that, at times, you can be wrong, too. You fall in love, but that's not it - you have to build and sustain a relationship. You have to nurture that love - and that's something that requires an equal effort. Two people on the same page. Two people making sure they protect what they have for as long as they can.